New York has long faced criticism from tax experts for pioneering enforcement of the tax grab known euphemistically as the “convenience of the employer” rule. Connecticut resident and Cardozo School of Law professor Edward Zelinsky is the highest-profile crusader against the rule, under which New York grants itself the power to tax the income of nonresidents working remotely for a New York-based business so long as they theoretically could have performed the same work from a New York location.
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